The "Great Nerve Specialist"--The Professional Witness a Jonah--The "Railway Spine"--Is it Lack of Fairness and Honesty or Lack of Skill and Learning?--Destruction of Fine Herds of Cattle Without Compensation--Koch's Dictum and Denial--Koch's Tuberculin--The Serum Tribe--Stupendous Sale of Nostrums--Druggist's Arguments--Use of Proprietary Medicines Stimulates Sale of Nostrums. CHAPTER VI--FAITH CURE AND GRAFT IN SURGERY 62 Suggestive Therapeutics Chief Stock in Trade--Advice of a Medical College President--Disease Prevention Rather than Cure--Hygienic Living--The Medical Pretender--"Dangerous Diagnosis" Graft--Great Flourish of Trumpets--No "Starving Time" for Him--"Big Operations"--Mutilating the Human Body--Dr. C. W. Oviatt's Views--Dr. Maurice H. Richardson's Incisive Statements--Crying Need for Reform--Surgery that is Useless, Conscienceless and for Purely Commercial Ends--Spirit of Surgical Graft Especially in the West--Fee-Splitting and Commissions--A Nation of "Dollar-Chasers"--The Public's Share of Responsibility--Senn's Advice--The "Surgical Conscience." PART II--OSTEOPATHY. CHAPTER VII--SOME DEFINITIONS AND HISTORIES 79 Romantic Story of Osteopathy's Origin--An Asthma Cure--Headache Cured by Plowlines--Log Rolling to Relieve Dysentery--Osteopathy is Drugless Healing--Osteopathy is Manual Treatment--Liberty of Blood, Nerves and Arteries--Perfect Skeletal Alignment and Tonic, Ligamentous, Muscular and Facial Relaxation--Andrew T. Still in 1874--Kirksville, Mo., as a Mecca--American School of Osteopathy--The Promised Golden Stream of Prosperity--The "Mossbacks"--"Who's Who in Osteopathy." CHAPTER VIII--THE OSTEOPATHIC PROPAGANDA 88 Wonderful Growth Claimed to Prove Merit--Osteopathy is Rational Physio-Therapy--Growth is in Exact Proportion to Advertising Received--Booklets and Journals for Gratuitous Distribution--Osteopathy Languishes or Flourishes by Patent Medicine Devices--Circular Letter from Secretary of American Osteopathic Association--Boosts by Governors and Senators--The Especial Protege of Authors--Mark Twain--Opie Reed--Emerson Hough--Sam Jones--The Orificial Surgeon--The M.D. Seeking Job as "Professor"--The Lure of "Honored Doctor" with "Big Income"--No Competition. CHAPTER IX--THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF OSTEOPATHY 97